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Mobile Payments’ Great Big Leap
There’s a perfect storm brewing in mobile payments. And it’s a storm that the shift to chip cards in the U.S. has intensified. That, in combination with the pressure on retailers to drive the top line...
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Through The Mobile Payments Looking Glass
“Curiouser and curiouser” is perhaps the best way to describe the mobile payments landscape here in the U.S., now one week since Chase Pay threw its hat into the ring. That phrase, of course, was...
View ArticleThe Great Facebook SMB Conversion Challenge
Facebook made it known last week that it wants to be best friends with small businesses. Maybe even their only friend. Facebook joins a long line of players who want to “friend” small businesses – from...
View ArticleIssuers To Apple Pay: Just Say No!
Odysseus was a pretty clever fellow. For those who might need a crash course in ancient Greek history, Odysseus was the mythical king of the island of Ithaca and star of Homer’s story, “The Odyssey.”...
View ArticlePayments Disruption By Any Other Name
A year and a half after Harvard University Professor Jill Lepore published a stinging rebuke of Harvard Business School Professor Clay Christensen’s theory on disruptive innovation, Christensen has...
View ArticlePayments 2015 By The Letter: L Through R
Yesterday, I gave you installment one of Payments by the letter – A through K – from Apple Pay to Kool-Aid, and a whole lot of juicy stuff in between. If you missed it, you can get it here. Ready for L...
View ArticleThe Rest Of The Payments 2015 By The Letter: S Through Z
Over the last two days, I’ve taken you from Apple Pay to Kool-Aid and Loyalty to Regulation. Today, I’ll wrap the year in payments by presenting the last 8 of the 26 topics of conversation that drove...
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Payments 2015: By The Letter eBook
DOWNLOAD NOW In many ways, 2015 was the year in which everything – and nothing — about payments changed. Plastic cards, checks – and yes, even cash – still define how payments are made among people...
View ArticleThe Race For Faster Payments Rails
Usain Bolt is the fastest human on earth, an 11-time World champion and the first man to win six Olympic Gold medals in sprinting. One of his claims to fame is that he can run 100 meters in 9.58...
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The A, B, Cs Of Payments 2015
In many ways, 2015 was the year in which everything – and nothing — about payments changed. Plastic cards, checks – and yes, even cash – still define how payments are made among people and businesses....
View ArticleGetting Ready For 2017? Not Before You Read This
Every Monday, this column space is dedicated to the musings of Karen Webster and her take on all things payments, commerce and retail. The goal: to start a conversation by taking a fresh look at how...
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52 Mondays, 52 Conversations, 52 Ways Of Looking At Payments
Dear Readers, I guess I’m a storyteller at heart. Every Monday, I publish a piece on PYMNTS that’s my take on something that happened in the world of payments, commerce and retail the week before. But...
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52 Mondays 2018: Karen Webster’s Year-Long Conversation About Payments
Hi everyone! Astrologists say that people born on Mondays have the psychic ability to understand others — making them better able to see what’s next. Executive coaches say Monday is the most...
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52 Monday Conversations About Payments In 2019
Mondays have a bad reputation, and that’s understandable. The magic of the weekend is fading into memory, and sometimes even the strongest coffee has a hard time sparking the engine needed for the...
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52 Mondays 2020: The Year Of Speed, Scale And Seismic Shifts in Payments
Looking back, when we take stock of what happened and sift through the chaos and heartbreak of the year that was, we’ll see the seismic shifts that took place in 2020. I’d written back in January that...
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52 Mondays 2021: And Just Like That, The Connected Economy Takes Off
The vintage pop song says, “Monday morning, you gave me no warning of what was to be …” No disrespect to The Mamas & The Papas, but I do that nearly every Monday (morning). Perhaps not...
View ArticleThe One Big Thing Apple’s Project Breakout Needs but Doesn’t Have
Project Breakout is said to be Apple’s now-not-so-secret plan to turn itself into a full-fledged payments and financial services company by building its own acquiring, payments processing, risk...
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The Year in Payments: From BNPL to FTX to the Digital Economy
Looking for analysis of everything from the digital economy to consumers’ instincts about inflation? Let Monday be your guide. “Monday.” It comes from the Anglo-Saxon word Mōnandæg, meaning “the moon’s...
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